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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Uh, Amazon offered to license their software to other hardware vendors early on.
The only requirement was they had to support whispernet.
Nobody took Bezos up on the offer because, of course!, epub was going to rule.
Then the conspiracy kicked in, Nook moved to near-cost pricing, and Kindle followed and there was no money to be made in Kindle-compatible readers.
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I didn't realize that, thanks for the correction. I had the impression that after Amazon bought Mobipocket they forced everyone to drop support of the format.